The slapping was very satisfying. This is a very original game, I liked the idea a lot and the ending made me laugh. Does the mother-in-law throw a cat? Slapping it out of the air was great
@Sean Noonan: Thanks mate ;) @sanojian: Thank you a lot ! @xgeovanni: I wondered about it as well. As you may see in other comments though, despite the efficiency factor, the slap feels satisfying and people have fun using it. Also, I introduced the bag later because I wanted to progressively introduce the player to new mechanics as he was going by. It's probably a balance mistake on my part of having the bag "overpowered" or maybe not stunning you long enough to have a true situational "advantage" of using the slap rather than the bag. Thank you for commenting and playing. @mutuware: Boom ;) @GagaPete: Thank you and yes indeed :) @SecondDimension: Thanks. Originally the mother-in-law is supposed to throw a small dog (a sort of chihuahua) but the graphic is not very detailed. I guess it's up to the player to see what he wants there :)
OK..I'm a woman, so this was a bit juvenile for my tastes, but the voice work made me laugh so hard, cause I assume it's just a pitched up dude voice. ;) I'm new to Construct 2 so thanks for all you do on the forums there. You help all us newbies every day!
@ako: It is indeed my pitched up voice and yes the game is deliberately "juvenile", it's just a humorous game that plays on stereotypes and clichés. @Mase@robhor@Fervir : Thanks ^^ @JaymeeMak: To get past the cars, jump over them as displayed in the third screenshot. You need to anticipate them a bit though. @Magdev: I'll take this comment with humor ^^ Nevertheless, if it is really what you felt, I'd love to hear more about the aspects that brought you to this conclusion. @Mnemusyne: Indeed this game plays on the worst stereotypes and clichés (the bimbos, the mother in law). Believe it or not though, most of those ideas come from a lady friend of mine who was having a blast play-testing it.
It is absolutely not meant to be taken seriously and even though we're dealing with some of those stereotypes, the main character is still (imo) an empowered woman who gets out of a bad predicament on her own strength and will. It is meant as a cartoonish snack game that you play for a few minutes and then move on.
Nevertheless, if you want to take the discussion further I would love to hear about it.
That was ridiculous and hilarious. The controls felt a bit stiff, and the knockback when getting hit was a bit much. Despite it's flaws, I refused to stop until I beat it, so it definitely kept my interests. My favorite part was the sound effect. :)
@cecisco: I guess I'll post a video of full gameplay at some point at worst :)
@Jpgicatoste: Thank you for the kind words. As mentioned above, most of the ideas come from discussions with a lady-friend of mine. I told her about the LD theme, and we just went on discussing and having fun around the theme. It ended on "You only get one chance to marry the one you love", using slaps and purses blows on bimbos to get to it ^^ The assets are just what felt funny/appropriate to a "cartoony" game (in the measure of what I could do). I focused on efficiency (making a game) and making it as fun/delirious as possible.
Double dragon-style! I laughed with the SFX! Good job on the level design as well. Would love to see "C" do a Lifebar-draining special move, as is customary in brawlers. Kudos! Could maybe do without the stereotypical sexism, but gameplay wise it's really satisfying! Thanks for being such a helpful guy over at the C2 forums
@Christina: thank you for the nice developed critic :) I pondered having a super move in the game, on the power level, the "regular" C attack ended up being it indeed. I guess, as stated in a previous comment, that the attack is too over-powered and doesn't "freeze" you enough to really give a risk/reward strategy to its use. The only "measure" in the game is time. If there had been a lifebar/HP for the character, I guess it would have made sense/would have been expected, as you mention, that some life gets drained like in Street of Rage 2.
For the stereotypical sexism, I regret more and more I wasn't able to make a really good parody/caricature, so big, so cartoony, that it would have been obvious that it was a parody and making fun of those stereotypes and that no one would have been annoyed with it.
Nice little game! I like the idea a lot, both theme-wise and gameplay-wise :)
[SPOILER ALERT] I think it may have been even funnier to let the player choose at the end whether you want to "slap" your husband or not - after all, maybe the mother-in-law did all of this on her own without him knowing anything? [/SPOILER ALERT]
@postmodestie: Thank you for the comment :) I'm not a graphic artist, but did my best to have understandable graphics that did not look too bad and it ended pretty cartoony/trashy :)
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@sanojian: Thank you a lot !
@xgeovanni: I wondered about it as well. As you may see in other comments though, despite the efficiency factor, the slap feels satisfying and people have fun using it.
Also, I introduced the bag later because I wanted to progressively introduce the player to new mechanics as he was going by.
It's probably a balance mistake on my part of having the bag "overpowered" or maybe not stunning you long enough to have a true situational "advantage" of using the slap rather than the bag. Thank you for commenting and playing.
@mutuware: Boom ;)
@GagaPete: Thank you and yes indeed :)
@SecondDimension: Thanks. Originally the mother-in-law is supposed to throw a small dog (a sort of chihuahua) but the graphic is not very detailed.
I guess it's up to the player to see what he wants there :)
Thank you a lot for playing and commenting.
This game was really funny!
Loved it!
@Mase @robhor @Fervir : Thanks ^^
@JaymeeMak: To get past the cars, jump over them as displayed in the third screenshot. You need to anticipate them a bit though.
@Magdev: I'll take this comment with humor ^^
Nevertheless, if it is really what you felt, I'd love to hear more about the aspects that brought you to this conclusion.
@Mnemusyne: Indeed this game plays on the worst stereotypes and clichés (the bimbos, the mother in law).
Believe it or not though, most of those ideas come from a lady friend of mine who was having a blast play-testing it.
It is absolutely not meant to be taken seriously and even though we're dealing with some of those stereotypes, the main character is still (imo) an empowered woman who gets out of a bad predicament on her own strength and will.
It is meant as a cartoonish snack game that you play for a few minutes and then move on.
Nevertheless, if you want to take the discussion further I would love to hear about it.
@windwalkerranger
@zatyka
Thank you a lot :)
Glad you enjoyed the game !
Did she marry after all?
she does ^^[/SPOILER ALERT]
@Jpgicatoste: Thank you for the kind words. As mentioned above, most of the ideas come from discussions with a lady-friend of mine. I told her about the LD theme, and we just went on discussing and having fun around the theme.
It ended on "You only get one chance to marry the one you love", using slaps and purses blows on bimbos to get to it ^^
The assets are just what felt funny/appropriate to a "cartoony" game (in the measure of what I could do).
I focused on efficiency (making a game) and making it as fun/delirious as possible.
Thanks for good mood!
I pondered having a super move in the game, on the power level, the "regular" C attack ended up being it indeed.
I guess, as stated in a previous comment, that the attack is too over-powered and doesn't "freeze" you enough to really give a risk/reward strategy to its use.
The only "measure" in the game is time.
If there had been a lifebar/HP for the character, I guess it would have made sense/would have been expected, as you mention, that some life gets drained like in Street of Rage 2.
For the stereotypical sexism, I regret more and more I wasn't able to make a really good parody/caricature, so big, so cartoony, that it would have been obvious that it was a parody and making fun of those stereotypes and that no one would have been annoyed with it.
[SPOILER ALERT]
I think it may have been even funnier to let the player choose at the end whether you want to "slap" your husband or not - after all, maybe the mother-in-law did all of this on her own without him knowing anything?
[/SPOILER ALERT]
It is true that this point is a bit blurry.
I'm not a graphic artist, but did my best to have understandable graphics that did not look too bad and it ended pretty cartoony/trashy :)